Frederick O'Hara Koshare, 1950, Lithograph on Paper, Framed

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James Frederick O’Hara, painter, printmaker, and teacher, was born on 6 August 1904 in Ottawa, Canada.

After marrying Mary Louise … more James Frederick O’Hara, painter, printmaker, and teacher, was born on 6 August 1904 in Ottawa, Canada.

After marrying Mary Louise Robinson in 1939, the couple moved Tucson, Arizona in 1940. The following year they moved to a small ranch on the Guadalupe Trail, north of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and O’Hara began teaching painting intermittently at the University of New Mexico Albuquerque.

This piece, Koshare, depicts a clown or trickster figure in the Kachina religion practiced by the Pueblo Indians of the southwestern US. This piece is named and signed in pencil by O'Hara. Actual image is 16 1/4 in x 10 1/2 in . In good condition overall. less